Italian academia: A family business? Statistical analysis points to high frequency of last names in disciplines, institutions

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 18:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Unusually high clustering of last names within Italian academic institutions and disciplines indicates widespread nepotism in the country's schools, according to a new computational analysis.

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